Can Health/Medical Informatics be Regarded as a Separate Discipline?

D. J. Protti; J. H. van Bemmel; R. Gunzenhäuser; R. Haux; H. Warner; J. V. Douglas; E. Lang

doi:10.1055/s-0038-1635017

Methods of Information in Medicine, Table of Contents

Methods Inf Med 1994; 33(03): 318-326
DOI: 10.1055/s-0038-1635017

Panel Discussion

Schattauer GmbH

Can Health/Medical Informatics be Regarded as a Separate Discipline?

D. J. Protti

¹University of Victoria, Canada

,

J. H. van Bemmel

²Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands

,

R. Gunzenhäuser

³University of Stuttgart, Germany

,

R. Haux

⁴University of Heidelberg, Germany

,

H. Warner

⁵University of Utah, USA

,

J. V. Douglas

⁶University of Maryland at Baltimore, USA

,

E. Lang

⁷University of Hildesheim, Germany

› Author Affiliations

Abstract

Abstract:

The participants of the panel on education and training in Medical Informatics, concurred that health/medical informatics is today thriving as a separate discipline, despite inevitable uncertainties regarding the future. Conferees discussed the distinctions between physician-built systems and those designed by medical informaticians, focusing on methodology as critical to medical informatics.

Keywords

Medical Informatics - Health Informatics - Education - Training

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